Literary Places

This database of writerly destinations—places writers can visit for inspiration, to promote their writing, for research, and to discover community—includes historical sites, reading venues, literary collections, writing centers, and writers spaces. Save your selections to My P&W and populate a personal Google Map that can be used to plan reading tours and visits to literary meccas, or just to keep track of your favorite literary locales.

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Literary Place	City	State
Faulkner House Books	New Orleans	Louisiana
Located in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter, Faulkner House Books is a full-service new and used independent bookstore. In addition... Indie Bookstore
Maple Street Book Shop	New Orleans	Louisiana
Founded in 1964 by two sisters, Maple Street Book Shop consists of two cottages: a pink cottage for new books and a green one for used and rare... Indie Bookstore
The Unterberg Poetry Center	New York	New York
Located at the 92nd Street Y, Unterberg Poetry Center hosts a reading series of approximately thirty events each year, most of which are held in... Reading Venue, Writing Center
The Morgan Library & Museum	New York	New York
A complex of buildings in the heart of New York City, The Morgan Library & Museum began as the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan (... Literary Archive
Fales Library and Special Collections	New York	New York
The Fales Library, comprising nearly 200,000 volumes, close to 9,000 linear feet of archive and manuscript materials, and about 65,000 media... Literary Archive
The Writers Studio	New York	New York
Founded in 1987 by Philip Schultz, the Writers Studio is a nondegree granting, private school based in Greenwich Village in New York City that... Writing Center
The New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division	New York	New York
The Division holds over 29,000 linear feet of archival material in over 3,000 collections. The strengths of the Division are the papers and... Literary Archive
McNally Jackson Books	New York	New York
McNally Jackson Books, located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, stocks about 40,000 books at any given time and sprawls over 7,000... Indie Bookstore, Reading Venue
Strand Book Store	New York	New York
Founded in 1927 by Ben Bass, Strand Book Store was originally one of forty-eight bookstores on Book Row, which existed in the 1890s and ran from... Indie Bookstore
St. Mark's Bookshop	New York	New York
Established in 1977, St. Mark's Bookshop is an East Village institution and well known for its selection of critical theory and art books. The... Indie Bookstore